“LILLIAN GINEVRA POTTER! GET YOUR ARSE OUT OF BED THIS INSTANT!” Ginny Potter’s voice echoed through the Potter mansion as she shrieked at her daughter. A brown haired girl sat straight up in bed, startled out of her semi-coma that she called sleeping.
“Did you have to be that loud? Why are you waking me up anyway? It’s vacation!” Lily said making as if to dive back down under the covers, but her mother’s glare made her think twice about it.
“Yes, I had to wake you up,” Ginny said icily, “or did you forget that we are leaving for the airport IN FIFTEEN MINUTES?” her voice got louder and louder with every word.
“All right, all right, I’m up, I’m up!” Lily grumbled, throwing off the covers and shutting her door to change. Ginny sighed in relief; getting Lily up was her chore for the morning, and Lily was very grumpy in the mornings, to the point of hexing whoever the unfortunate soul was that tried to wake her up.
“You should have shouted louder, luv. I think the people in the village couldn’t quite make out what you were saying,” Harry teased his wife as he came up behind her and gave her a hug. Ginny twisted around in his arms and mock-glared at him.
“Are you making fun of your wife, Potter? Because if you are, I’m sure your wife would be quite happy to kick you onto the couch tonight.” Harry hastily backtracked, pulling an exaggerated look of terror onto his face.
“Not at all, Mrs. Potter. I was merely complimenting the melodious and loud voice of my lovely wife, and investigating what made my wife blow out my eardrums at eight in the morning,”
“For Merlin’s sake, I don’t know how she manages to get to her classes on time, let alone have time for breakfast,” Ginny laughed, leaning into Harry.
“Leah, Charlotte, and Natalie have an air horn, and they take turns blowing it under the protection of a shield charm,” Lily’s twin, Sirius, answered, coming up behind them. “One of them usually ends up coming to breakfast covered in bat-bogeys and cursing the day you ever taught her that hex, Mum.” He grinned, “Pretty amusing actually. If you’re anywhere in Gryffindor Tower when they wake her up, you can hear her screaming. The first years always look terrified when they hear her for the first time. Chris and Jack are trying to convince them that a Banshee lives in the top of Gryffindor Tower.”
Harry laughed at his son’s description. Fred’s boys managed to cause just as much trouble as he and George had in their days at Hogwarts, and each prank was more original then the last.
“Anyway, I got the car all loaded up, except for Lily’s book bag, which she has in her room. When are we going to go?”
“As soon as your sister gets her butt in gear and actually wakes up!” Ginny answered, sending one of her death glares at Lily’s closed door, which suddenly flew open, and Lily came out, with no sign of her previous reluctance to be awake.
“So, when are we going to go?”
“We’re ready dear, we were waiting on you,” Harry said, turning to leave.
Lily looked embarrassed. “Yeah…I’m sorry about that.”
“Come on, let’s go, we’re going to be late!” Ginny hustled them out of the house and into the car.
Half an hour later, they were at London’s international airport, waiting in what seemed like an endless security line. Finally they reached the front and put their bags in the bins to be scanned by security. Lily, Ginny and Lily’s little sister, Hermione’s bags had gone through without any problems, but when Harry’s bag went through the scanner, a loud beeping noise emitted, and the security guard led him over to a table, where he started searching through the bag.
He lifted out a newspaper, a few books, and a file full of papers before he came upon the source of the beeping.
“Aha!” the security guard exclaimed, “I’m sorry sir, but pocket knives aren’t allowed on the plane. I’ll have to dispose of this.”
Harry, who had started to turn red ever since he had been stopped, now resembled a ripe tomato. He and Ginny had been traveling ever since Ginny had gotten out of Hogwarts; he should be used to airports by now. Discretely pulling out his wand, he aimed it at the guard and muttered a quick Confundus Charm.
“What was I just saying?” the guard asked dazedly. Harry took advantage of his confusion to rescue his knife, and then said smoothly,
“You were just about to let me go, because you couldn’t find the source of the beeping.” The security guard frowned, but let him pass, and he went over to Ginny and the girls. Ginny glared at him.
“I saw that, Harry!” she hissed. She looked like she was going to say more, but Sirius was being stopped at the metal detector, and she went over to do damage control. “We’ll talk about this later!” she hissed at Harry over her shoulder.
“Is there anything metal on your person, sir?” the young female security guard in charge of the metal detector asked Sirius, and Lily, who had followed her mum over, stifled her sniggering over Sirius being called “sir”. Sure, Sirius was six feet tall, but he was about as mature as Uncle Fred and Uncle George, which was to say, not mature at all.
“Just my belt buckle…I can’t take it off, though,” Sirius said, grinning in anticipation of her next question.
“Why not, sir?” the guard asked, beginning to look irritated.
“Well, you see, if I take my belt buckle off, my pants will fall down. And while I wouldn’t mind giving you a show,” he grinned flirtatiously at her, “I really don’t want to flash everyone else in the airport. Don’t want to scar little children, you know.”
At this point, Ginny rushed over, and glared at her son. “Sirius, just take off your belt buckle. You’re not going to flash everyone, I bought those pants for you; I know they aren’t going to fall off.”
Sirius glared back at his mum, sullenly took off his belt and walked back through the metal detector. Sure enough, that was the problem. Ginny hustled them over to where Harry and Hermione were waiting after apologizing profusely to the security guard.
“Remind me why we didn’t Apparate again?” Ginny asked Harry, scowling.
Harry answered, “Because I hate Apparating, overseas flights are even worse, and I begged and pleaded you to let us take a plane,” and looked down at his watch. “We’d better get to the terminal. Flight’s leaving in a half hour.”
They headed toward the terminal, but Ginny lagged behind, pulling Harry with her. “What the hell were you thinking, using magic in a public place like this?” She would have continued berating him, but he interjected with a plea.
“Ginny, it was Sirius’s knife, the one he gave me for Christmas the year he died. Would you have me give that up? I was very discreet about it, after all.” He gave her the puppy dog look, the one that got her every time, and she conceded with a sigh.
“Let’s go find the kids; I’m sure that they are up to some mischief right now.”
Lily, Sirius, and Hermione had reached the terminal by this time. Hermione was reading, Sirius was walking around restlessly, and Lily was talking to a guy in the seat next to her. It seemed perfectly friendly, but Sirius was watching him, and the guy, Jared, was eyeing his sister in a way that made Sirius uncomfortable. Lily hadn’t seemed to notice, but Sirius resolved to give Jared a talking to the minute Lily left, which she was bound to do soon. Sure enough, a minute later she left in the direction of the ladies room, and Sirius started talking to Jared. When Lily came back, Jared was nowhere to be found.
“Did you see where Jared, that guy I was talking to, went?” she asked her brother.
“Nope, haven’t seen him!” Normally this would be a perfectly acceptable answer, but something in Sirius’ tone made Lily glance at her brother. A brightly innocent look was on his face, but it was too innocent. Sirius had scared the guy off!
“Sirius, what did you say to him?” she exclaimed, exasperated with her brother’s over protectiveness.
“Nothing, nothing…come on, we better get on the plane.” Sirius picked up his carryon and headed for the plane. Lily intended to say more to him, but with the hustle and bustle of getting on the plane, finding seats, and Ginny and Harry showing up just before they closed the boarding gate, there wasn’t enough time, so she decided to let it go. Ten hours later, they arrived in Salt Lake City, Utah.
Ski-reaming at the Top of her Lungs by LilyGinnyWrites92
Chapter Notes: Thanks to my beta, Hermione_granger4life! Go check out her story, Love Will Do That To You.
Mild Language warning, and made up word in the title.
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